try recessing it into the actual ceiling....if you wish to use texture lighting only in this instanc....

my 2 cents....

Doc Brass...

thatd work as well, prolly up yer r's a bit tho....

Doc B...

Doc's right about the general increase in r's when you use func_walls, as they're 'visible' from everywhere in the map. i suppose my advice was a knee-jerk reaction when i seen face-splitting. /me bad

TB's solution of moving the brush down by 1 unit would be a better solution where the player can't see the space.

though the corridor does looks plain enough to accomodate some of Doc's recessed wall/ceiling lights [and maybe more], without any danger of the r's getting out of hand.

ok first...lets be clear.....i am NOT trying to be argumentative here....im just going from my own personal experience...this came up a while back, and i just happened to have a map with a few func_walls in it that i used as an example of what NOT to do (anyone remember that??) ie, too many func walls up the r's...actually it was an example of misuse of them...granted there were alot of them, but the general premise was exactly that....what NOT to do....hense:

? posted by Dr Brasso

they tend to up the r's a bit....i didnt say itd send em thru the roof, maybe its the quantity of func_walls then that are used

Andrew's quite right here. A func_wall is only visible if you can see it directly, though occasionally Half-Life has an odd habit of having faces rendered through solid walls, but that goes for all brushwork/entities.

Too much of any entity will screw over your r_speeds, it's a fact of life. But in this case, you could do anything from func_wall'ing your light or just taking it one unit away from the cieling.

P.S. As an unrelated comment, having bounce at 0 with really intense lighting produces pitch black shadows, an AMAZING effect, especially in a firefight.